The news is never good when it leads with the words “Scott Pruitt.” This story is no different, except that it’s more of a history lesson.

Right-wing billionaires are sure to disapprove of any large-scale public action that underlines how bad their preferred policies are, and indeed, a large number of them are supporting a PR effort to discredit the teacher’s strikes happening around the country—including, in a fun twist, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’…

As Oklahoma public school teachers enter their third day of walkouts, Republican Governor Mary Fallin wanted to let the teachers know that they’re a bunch of greedy fucking 16-year-olds.

On Friday, over 1,000 teachers in Kentucky called in sick in response to a provision changing their pension benefits that was tacked on last second to a sewage bill. The gumption to protest has spread; on Monday in Oklahoma, teachers are poised to walk out of the classroom over school spending cuts.

A man who bound, raped, and threatened to hurt a 13-year-old girl if she told anyone about the assault was sentenced to 15 years probation in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

A former Oklahoma state senator—and Trump’s campaign chair in that state—is expected to plead guilty to child sex trafficking after offering to pay a 17-year-old boy for “sexual stuff” last year.

There’s a misguided notion that by the time a woman hits her 72nd birthday, the only thing she’s really good for is shuffling around in an old pair of slippers, forcefully showing off pictures of the grandkids and maybe firing off the odd batch of brownies here and there.

On Wednesday, KFOR News reported that Republican Oklahoma State Senator Bryce Marlatt was named a suspect for allegedly sexually assaulting a female Uber driver, according to a recent police report.

Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey, a “family values” Republican with a history of supporting absurd anti-abortion and anti-LGBT measures, is facing three felony charges related to child prostitution after allegedly soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy. He has since resigned, and plead not guilty on Friday.

Debating an Oklahoma bill that would outlaw abortion in cases of genetic abnormalities or Down syndrome, state Rep. George Faught (R) responded to a question about abortion in cases of rape or incest by confidently stating that in many biblical cases, God wanted women to get raped. Well, why didn’t Faught tell women…

Women, you may think that the flesh that covers you and the organs and muscles and neurons that make you breathe and poop and eat are your own, but actually they are not. Oklahoma State Rep. Justin Humphrey can see how might “feel like that is” your body, but if you are pregnant, he regrets to inform you that your…

Pregnant women are such a threat to public safety and American democracy that on their first day in session, Oklahoma state legislators have already filed around a dozen bills targeting abortion access—including at least one “spousal consent” bill that is unconstitutional.

In an incredible yet completely expected move, Daniel Holtzclaw, the former Oklahoma City police officer who was convicted in 2015 of 18 counts of rape, sexual battery and a variety of other crimes has filed an appeal.

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A billboard company in Oklahoma has removed a billboard bought by a conservative media outlet, which speculated that former cop and convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw is innocent. Holtzclaw has given yet another interview from prison about this development, one of several he’s been able to give from behind bars, …

Daniel Holtzclaw is serving 263 years in prison for the serial rapes he committed against black women as an Oklahoma City police officer. Because the devil always needs more advocates, conservative media outlet CRTV has put up a billboard blocks from where many of the attacks were reported promoting their new…

An Oklahoma man convicted of raping an unconscious classmate was arrested again this week for being too near a high school. Three girls told Jezebel in 2014 that Tristen Killman-Hardin raped them; he was ultimately convicted of raping one victim, a 16-year-old we called Grace, whose rape Killman-Hardin was caught on…

An Oklahoma state legislator says he was merely making a funny joke when he said Hillary Clinton should be executed by firing squad. When he got a call from a reporter, though, Rep. John Bennett accused Clinton of “treason” and insisted, again, that people should die for that. Bennett previously wrote a Facebook post…

State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner called the Russian effort a “PR stunt.”

Tomorrow, as recently announced by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, is “Oilfield Prayer Day,” a very special day where Oklahomans get to use the power of prayer to reinvigorate a fossil fuel industry that’s created a handful of billionaires and a 5,000% increase in earthquakes.